Uneasy Freedom

The countdown began last September, when the sign first appeared in San
Francisco's heavily homosexual Castro Street district. It read: 100
DAYS UNTIL DAN WHITE IS FREE. Each day the number diminished, and
occasionally the word FREE was crossed out and changed to DEAD.

Shortly after 8 a.m. last Friday, Dan White was freed from prison,
having served five years of a seven-year eight-month sentence for
killing San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk,
a gay activist. At noon, 1,000 San Franciscans protested by marching
noisily through...